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could make gop vulnerable before 2014 elections. one writes to dean, it will never get through the house unless obama comes out against it. so, people seem skeptical about congress. is that shocking? >> it's not shocking at all. you know what makes it unbelievable to all of us is 90% of americans in polls support universal background check for anyone to buy a gun, to close the gun show loophole but still this is may not pass congress. forget the assault weapon ban. congress does nothing. doesn't work on budget, doesn't pass gun control. we should take a page from the nhl owners and nba owners and lock congress out for a month. let them work in a parking lot or motel 6 because they're not doing the job. republicans a >> i stopped reading tweets on the air but i'm doing it just for you. >> this is big. a new retro. >> we followed up those skeptics with this question, how can we push congress to just get things done. one of your fans tweeted, i'd lock them all in the room with same stuff they feed federal prisoners and not them out nlg
could make gop vulnerable before 2014 elections. one writes to dean, it will never get through the house unless obama comes out against it. so, people seem skeptical about congress. is that shocking? >> it's not shocking at all. you know what makes it unbelievable to all of us is 90% of americans in polls support universal background check for anyone to buy a gun, to close the gun show loophole but still this is may not pass congress. forget the assault weapon ban. congress does nothing....
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time when they were up for re-election so it's a frustrating time. we all complain about it but yet do nothing about it on election day. that's where we must wake up. >> listen, having a little bit of fun with it, but it's a very serious issue. this is just a senate panel now. this this goes to, you know, to the floor, it's going to be a big deal. >> it won't get to a vote. they need 60 votes to stop discussion on any piece of legislation in the senate, and it's clear from everyone that they are not going to get the 60 votes, even to stop debating on the universal background check which is remarkable to me. when you have over 90% of americans and gun owners, everyone has paid for text september for one big organization, the nra does not want it in certain right fringe republicans. it's shocking to me. >> power of one big lobbying group. >> not own that big. >> nice to see you. >> good to see you, don. >> a look ahead right after this. [ kitt ] you know what's impressive? a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge loc
time when they were up for re-election so it's a frustrating time. we all complain about it but yet do nothing about it on election day. that's where we must wake up. >> listen, having a little bit of fun with it, but it's a very serious issue. this is just a senate panel now. this this goes to, you know, to the floor, it's going to be a big deal. >> it won't get to a vote. they need 60 votes to stop discussion on any piece of legislation in the senate, and it's clear from everyone...
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up in may and he thinks he can do well in those elections. the turnout today, people not that interested, it seems, don. >> not that interested so it -- even if he comes back to the country and hugely unpopular, chances are he would not win. >> reporter: no. the chances are he wouldn't win. look, when he -- by the time he left the country the population had turned against him. there have been hard economic times and there are some people that look back to the days when he was on power and see the country being better and that's one of the things he comment order when he came back. the country is economically more immover i shalled. i don't think anyone holds out the hope she the man that will fix it. he discredited the army and now has the threat, death threat, hanging over his head from the taliban. how will he get out on the streets and effectively campaign under those circumstances? >> nic robertson, thanks very much for that. >>> coming up -- >> i pronounce you legally married. >> is america going gay? on the path towards gay marriage. th
up in may and he thinks he can do well in those elections. the turnout today, people not that interested, it seems, don. >> not that interested so it -- even if he comes back to the country and hugely unpopular, chances are he would not win. >> reporter: no. the chances are he wouldn't win. look, when he -- by the time he left the country the population had turned against him. there have been hard economic times and there are some people that look back to the days when he was on...
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that's why he's been elected. and i certainly hope we never go down this road ever again, because you never want to lose any lives, and there's always an unintended consequences. >> dick cheney has, you know, this new documentary out of him, donna. he said that he regrets nothing. that he would do it again. he would invade iraq again, because saddam hussein was frankly, a terrible person. >> absolutely. but we have a lot of terrible people, all over the world. as we speak right now, in syria, for example, one just passed away in venezuela. we have one in iran. can we solve all our problems by invading sovereign countries? i don't think so. i would hope that we'd learn that we shouldn't just be so happy to go to war before we use all of the other diplomatic and other means at our disposal. >> and amy, i think, clearly, especially from my facebook comments, americans have absolutely no appetite for war, or very little appetite for war, unless the country comes under direct attack. >> i mean, i have to agree with you
that's why he's been elected. and i certainly hope we never go down this road ever again, because you never want to lose any lives, and there's always an unintended consequences. >> dick cheney has, you know, this new documentary out of him, donna. he said that he regrets nothing. that he would do it again. he would invade iraq again, because saddam hussein was frankly, a terrible person. >> absolutely. but we have a lot of terrible people, all over the world. as we speak right now,...
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and just a few hours earlier, six days after his election, argentine cardinal jorge mario was formally installed as pop francis and you can see him receiving his papal ring, which is secondhand and not solid gold, in keeping with the pope's already famous disdain for worldly trapping. another big departure from the customs of his predecessor. he greeted his flock from an open-topped suv, kissing babies. you can't kiss babies through bulletproof glass, so this is what he decided. and in his homoly, the pope held up the st. joseph, whose feast day is today, as the model of a loving and faithful protector of god's creations. >>> president obama is preparing for his first presidential trip to israel and he's leaving this evening, expected to talk with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu about middle east peace, syria, iran. it's a pretty thick list. the president is also going to stop in the west bank and jordan. >>> jodi arias has a pretty good memory when it comes to her sex life with her former boyfriend, travis alexander, and pretty graphic detail, in fact. however, she can't rem
and just a few hours earlier, six days after his election, argentine cardinal jorge mario was formally installed as pop francis and you can see him receiving his papal ring, which is secondhand and not solid gold, in keeping with the pope's already famous disdain for worldly trapping. another big departure from the customs of his predecessor. he greeted his flock from an open-topped suv, kissing babies. you can't kiss babies through bulletproof glass, so this is what he decided. and in his...
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i mean we send our elected representatives to washington, d.c. an they chose to say that marriage is one man and one woman for purposes of federal law. >> reporter: and conservatives say the founding fathers never contemplated gay marriage. >> because it is clearly not what anyone understood as marriage at the time of the framing of the constitution. >> reporter: still, same-sex families pay taxes and don't get the same benefits and the issue with doma really gets complicated if they have children who are also excluded from benefits. >> when we have kids i would like them to be born in a post-doma united states. >> reporter: still, california as one of only a handful of states that gives most of the benefits of marriage to same-sex couples and domestic partnerships. one question is whether any ruling by the court on california could affect all of those other states in the same way. pred? >> thanks so much, joe. >>> so is there a feeling that the landscape on gay marriage is about to change in a big way? i spoke with state of the union' candy crow
i mean we send our elected representatives to washington, d.c. an they chose to say that marriage is one man and one woman for purposes of federal law. >> reporter: and conservatives say the founding fathers never contemplated gay marriage. >> because it is clearly not what anyone understood as marriage at the time of the framing of the constitution. >> reporter: still, same-sex families pay taxes and don't get the same benefits and the issue with doma really gets complicated...
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. >>> so you thought the election season was over. huh-uh. it is primary day in south carolina, folks. i'm talking low country. you see it right there. this state's first congressional district anchored by charleston and what a cast of characters this little race for congress. you have a man known as the former governor of the appalachiap ppa lash shap trail. the son of a certain media mogul, and you've also got the sister of a very famous funny man. and don't to get this, we're talking about south carolina. home of kamikaze style politics. this is an old fashioned street fight why a state where they all intersect. john avalon, piece choinice cho words. good to see you, sir. you had a trip to charleston. we of course begin with mark sanford, the guy who famously told reporters he was, you know, hiking on the aptrail but was actually having a bit of a tryst in arrest again see in a. is it true that he asked the woman who divorced him, jenny sanford, to run his campaign for this congressional seat? >> so that has indeed been reported. awkward.
. >>> so you thought the election season was over. huh-uh. it is primary day in south carolina, folks. i'm talking low country. you see it right there. this state's first congressional district anchored by charleston and what a cast of characters this little race for congress. you have a man known as the former governor of the appalachiap ppa lash shap trail. the son of a certain media mogul, and you've also got the sister of a very famous funny man. and don't to get this, we're...
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this is what america saw last election. the good news is we can't fall off the floor. this is about as low as we can get. and the party is trying to figure out how to move forward. what we saw today was not the grand old party of the gop, we saw the growth and opportunity party, a party trying to apply its principles to a new world. the party's job is not really to come up with new policy. that's for candidates, campaign, people on the hill. but the party is a machine. we forgot we're supposed to be the party of opportunity for all americans, the party that's supposed to be in every community, that's supposed to lift people up everywhere. let's remember that and get to work. >> so let's talk about one step in doing that, i know one of the concrete a fixes in the report is for the gop to drop its opposition to immigration reform. and this may be the reason why. when you look back and presidential elections, latino support for republicans has dropped in the span of eight years from 44%, that's what george bush received, to just 27% for mitt romney. alex, why do you think
this is what america saw last election. the good news is we can't fall off the floor. this is about as low as we can get. and the party is trying to figure out how to move forward. what we saw today was not the grand old party of the gop, we saw the growth and opportunity party, a party trying to apply its principles to a new world. the party's job is not really to come up with new policy. that's for candidates, campaign, people on the hill. but the party is a machine. we forgot we're supposed...
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>> i think he's somewhat humbled by his own election. you understand this, there is always a line, you don't know quite where it is. he needs to fight first and foremost for israel and its interests. but if gets too far away from the american president, he gets in trouble here at home. you see efforts by both of them. i thought it was remarkable. the jokes from the prime minister, the reference to the president's children, the president made reference to the prime minister's children, but, wolf, you know, you know how much his father yoni is his hero. when the president mentioned yoni you could see the prime minister was moved by that. a very smart tactical move by the president to invoke something personal to say i'm trying too. they're both trying in public to get along better. if that trickles into the private working relationship, all for the better because these issues are so difficult. one other point, that was a personal way to try to make a new bond, a better bond with netanyahu. the president also had several opportunities to ca
>> i think he's somewhat humbled by his own election. you understand this, there is always a line, you don't know quite where it is. he needs to fight first and foremost for israel and its interests. but if gets too far away from the american president, he gets in trouble here at home. you see efforts by both of them. i thought it was remarkable. the jokes from the prime minister, the reference to the president's children, the president made reference to the prime minister's children,...